My Web Link Bibliography
Created by: Tony Grattini
This bibliography includes sites that I feel complement the material that will be learned in my biology courses. The subtitles are arranged in the order in which they are presented in:
Campbell, Reece, & Mitchell. (5th Ed., 1999). Biology.
The
Cell
Prokaryote
vs. Eukaryote This page describes the differences between prokaryotic
cells and eukaryotic cells. It also contains two diagrams of prokaryotic
cells: a bacterium and a cyanophyte. There is
also a link to an online biology book which is very informative. Date visited
http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~mwd/cell_www/chapter1/cell_chapter1.html
Prokaryotes This page describes the typical prokaryotic cell structure. Included in this description is the cell wall, the plasma membrane, the cytoplasm, ribosomes, and DNA.
Date visited
http://www.lsic.ucla.edu/classes/mimg/spring_03/mimg6/m6webnotes/3Prok.htm
The Bacteria Museum This website tells you everything you ever wanted to know about bacteria, which is a type of prokaryote. It is a virtual tour of a museum whose number one exhibit is bacteria. I really enjoy the way that this website is set up.
Date visited
Cells Alive This website has three interactive models of a plant cell, an animal cell, and a bacterium. Click on either cell and begin exploring the different organelles and structures within each cell type. There are also quizzes and other interactive activities that you can explore. You can even see a cancer and bacterium live, via a web cam. This is probably my favorite website on cells that I have found.
Date visited
http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/3dcell.htm
Cellupedia This is also an excellent website for cell exploration. It includes an introduction, cell basics, cell anatomy, cellular process, molecular transport and DNA replication, reproduction, protein synthesis, cellular metabolism, cellular signaling interactivity, and other information concerning cells. Pictures and diagrams are not as interactive as cellsalive, but are very easy to understand.
Date visited
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004535/cellular_processes.html
Genetics
Mendel, Gregor This website describes Gregor Mendels contribution to the field of genetics. There is a nice hypertext link in Mendels background page that goes to more interesting information than his life history.
Date visited
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/klmno/mendel_gregor.html
Watson, James & Crick, Francis This is Time magazines site for the top 100 scientists. Watson and Crick discovered the secret to life, DNA. It is a very informative article written in an entertaining way.
Date visited
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/watsoncrick.html
DNA This website is very interactive. You can go through the step by step process of DNA replication as well as Protein synthesis.
Date visited
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/shockwave.html
Protein Synthesis This website just shows a great animation of what goes on during protein synthesis. Be patient because it goes a little slow.
Date visited
http://omega.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ray/protein/panim.htm
Human Genome Project Visit the National Human Genome Research Institutes homepage to gain a plethora of information on the Human Genome project. Not very interactive, but the site is easy to follow with lots of hypertext words so that you can follow the path you wish to go.
Date visited
Plants
USDA (United States
Department of Agriculture) You can get information and pictures of any plant
you can think of in the
Date visited -6/11/03
Monocots vs. Dicots This is a website that explains the differences between the two major classes of flowering plants, monocots and dicots.
Date visited
Plant Parts The illustrations and the way the information is presented seems like it is for a younger group of students, but nonetheless it is very informative.
Date visited
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts2a.html
Photosynthesis
This is a web page created by a professor at
Date visited
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/learn.html
Carbon Cycle This is another webpage that is created by the thinkquest library. It takes you through the typical cycle that carbon goes through. It also explains how important plants are to the cycle. Plants are the primary producers in most ecosystems.
Date visited
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=11226&url=11226/
Invertebrates
Myriad World of Invertebrates This is a colorful website with plenty of information on Invertebrates and pictures of some from each Phylum.
Date visited
http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/
Arthropods This website is a great introduction to arthropods. It also has numerous links to other sites that explain why arthropods are one of the most successful Phylum on Earth.
Date visited
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/arthropoda.html
Cephalopods
This website was created by Dr. Wood, a professor at
Date visited
http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/index.html
Insects If you want to learn about insects, this is the site. It is divided into several different sections, very easy to navigate. The creator also included pictures he took of several different species from 14 different orders of insects. With each picture there is a brief description and the ability to enlarge the picture.
Date visited
Worms This is probably the most entertaining site that I have been to. It is probably better for Elementary to Middle School grades, but I thought that I would include it anyway. It explains everything you ever wanted to know about worms.
Date visited 6/17/03
http://www.esc20.k12.tx.us/etprojects/formats/webquests/summer99/northside/worms/student.html#act1
Vertebrates
Fish This webpage provides general background information concerning phylogeny and anatomy of fish.
Date visited
http://www.cneti.com/~chs/fish.htm
Amphibians This website is an Amphibian Checklist created by the USGS (United States Geological Survey). It has numerous pictures of a variety of species arranged according to Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species.
It has both salamanders and frogs found within the
Date visited
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/idguide/index.htm
Snakes of
North America -
This website has a list of all of the snakes in
Date visited
http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/SoNA.html
Introduction to Turtles This webpage gives general background on turtles. Also check out the Herps picture gallery. There are hundreds of pictures of turtles, tortoises, terrapins, lizards, snakes, frogs, crocodiles, and tuataras.
Date visited
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/anapsids/testudines/testudines.html
Virtual Frog Dissection On this site you first reconstruct the frog and then you can dissect it. This is a great way to get to know where the different organs of a frog are located. It is also less mess and smelly than a frog dissection laboratory exercise.
Date visited
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog/builder.html
Crocodile and Alligators This site offers information an pictures on both alligators and crocodiles. It also attempts to answer the age old question on what the difference is between alligators and crocodiles.
Date visited
http://www.geocities.com/rabpid7/ALLIGATOR_ANDx.html
Birds Ever listen to the sounds of birds singing and wish you knew what type of bird it was. This is an excellent page to identify birds not only by their call but also by the way they look.
Date visited
http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gbbcguideframes.html
Mammals Created by the Smithsonian Institute, this is a list of all North American Mammals. I like searching via the Family Tree. It divides into genus and species. You can also view different information about the animals once at the species level. There are also pictures and other features once at the species stage.
Date visited
http://web6.si.edu/np_mammals/main.cfm
Other Websites
http://www.funhousefilms.com/sciencpg.htm
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/scripts/glossary.pl